Looking back, COUM’s Cosey Fanni Tutti now feigns not to have understood “what the fuss was about… the five-foot-long double-ended dildo smeared with blood, syringes we’d used for injecting blood and urine, knives, my soiled bloody tampons and other relics were everyday objects to me, but were obviously shocking to other people”.

At 65, with an acclaimed career in art and music behind her, you’d think she could admit that she got a kick out of sticking two fingers up at society’s hypocrisies. The MP who...